Homebrew Fluoreagna Species Details

 

"To hear the song of the Fluoreagna is a precious gift for top-siders like us, but to be invited to resonate with it's chorus is rarer than any diamond."

—Clara Tresor,  owner of The Fractal Step

The Fluoreagna were born of from shards of Alymatrea's World Crystals given life from the Leylines after The Wave. They are a rare sight within Tenebral, and even rarer in the surface world. 

Living Crystals

These part gem part flesh beings resemble a humanoid fused with gemstones, often around their extremities, chest, and eyes. Some are more flesh than gem, but all are blind to the world the way other mortals view it, in a very literal sense. Instead, they resonate with the world around them using the gems that form their "eyes", singing a psychic song to "see" the world around them. Many do not speak common, as it is rare for any to leave their clans, let alone Tenebral, and instead communicate through their resonant song. As such, there is often a communication barrier with other races, as the Fluoreagna communicate mostly through concepts and feelings rather than specific words. Additionally, many view the gems that comprise their primary organs as exceptionally rare and valuable, making it especially dangerous to exist around others. When combining their difficulty communicating with others and their innate "precious" body parts, few travel away from their clans.

It is difficult to say how long a Fluoreagna's life expectency is, though it is generally accepted amongst the few who even know of their existence that they will live as long the core gem within their chest remains intact. Even if the entire rest of a Fluoreagna's body is destroyed, they can regenerate, though it takes a great deal of time and mana to do so. Additionally, the more of their body they lose, the more memory they lose, making one reborn in this way effectively a new person altogether. It is not unheard of for Fluoreagna to ritually "shed" their bodies when they feel they have lived long enough, usually two to three hundred years. When they do this they will either grant a trusted companion the rite to remove their core, and whatever remains of their body is to be buried or fused to other Fluoreagna, as a means of sharing their memory with another.

It is incredibly rare for new pure Fluoreagna to be born, so the majority of them follow this life cycle. It is not impossible for one with a sufficiently developed organic body to mate with other humanoid races, however they rarely produce progeny, and only bear a new Fluoreagnan if the "mother" devotes some of their own core or shapes sufficiently pure World Crystal shards within their bodies. Those born in this manner to a humanoid parent often resemble that parent's race, but with Fluoreagnan eyes and core. They tend to age at the same rate as their humanoid parent until late adolescence to young adulthood, at which point their aging slows considerably. Half humanoid Fluoreagnans are said to live around 150 years before their organic bodies fail, leaving cores that do not always regenerate bodies. Additionally, they cannot bear new Fluoreagnan progeny unless "mating" with a pure Fluoreagnan, which would require partial core sacrifices to create a potential new core, and often means the "death" of the parents.

Fluoreagna Personality

The warforged were built to serve and to fight. For most of their existence, warforged had a clearly defined function and were encouraged to focus purely on that role. The Treaty of Thronehold gave them freedom, but many still struggle both to find a place in the post-war world and to relate to the creatures who created them.

Fluoreagna are calm and gentle by nature, often seeking community with one another and their environment. They live in isolated communities, and cherish the lives of one another over almost all else. Since so few truly new Fluoreagna are ever born, any core lost and shattered is seen as a great loss to their people as a whole, and brashness and impulsivity are seen as great dangers to the community at large. While timid around strangers, communities are generally welcoming to those they feel are safe. If they view someone as an intruder, they are more likely to hide or run than fight. However, many do carry a great pride in their histories and the shard memories of those passed on, and will not hesitate to take a measured defense against a given threat.

The typical Fluoreagna has an androgynous body shape, though some do generate dimorphous forms depending on the life they are in at the time. Some Fluoreagna ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity. Those that mate with humanoids do not necessarily generate female bodies to carry a child, even if progeny is their goal, only generating the necessary organs to bear the appropriate life.

The more a Fluoreagna develops their individuality, the more likely they are to modify their body, fusing new gems and shards with mana to change their form. This process is lengthy, however, and depending on the changes may require a great deal of mana. Many who engage in these transformations either take a long period to do so or will find a Leyline vein to speed up the process.

Quirks

Fluoreagna often display an odd personality trait or two, given how isolated they are from the world. The Fluoreagna Quirks table contains example quirks.

Warforged Quirks

Fluoreagna Names

Most Fluoreagna do not use names the way other races do, often using conceptualizations to refer to one another or the names of the gems which form their cores. When communicating with other species, they often adopt names from the other race's culture. As independent individuals, some have chosen new names as a way to express their path in life. A few take on human names, often the name of a fallen friend or mentor. Many who have taken on "organic" names without many close personal organic companions pull from the dead civilization that once lived side by side with the Fluoreagna before perishing in a natural disaster.

Fluoreagna Names: Róisín, Niamh, Laoise, Bronagh, Oisín, Ciaran, Abbán, Citrine, Alexandrite, Amethyst, Quartz, Blood Drop, etc.

Fluoreagna Traits

Your Fluoreagna character has the following traits. A few of the traits give you a choice; consider how your choice reflects the gem which forms your core.

Song of The Stone

Fluoreagna see the world through resonating their song through their gemstone eyes. You have Blindsight and Tremorsense.

Ability Score Increase

One ability score of your choice increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age

A typical Fluoreagna is between twenty and one hundred and fifty years old. The maximum Fluoreagna lifespan remains a mystery; so far, Fluoreagna have shown no signs of deterioration due to age, though most choose to recycle their cores around 300 years of age. You are immune to magical aging effects.

Alignment

Most Fluoreagna take comfort in order and safety, tending toward law and neutrality. But some have absorbed the morality, or lack thereof, of the beings they encounter.

Size

Your size is Medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:

Size modifier = 2d6

Height = 5 feet + 10 inches + your size modifier in inches

Weight in pounds = 270 + (4 × your size modifier)

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Mohs Core

You were born from a World Crystal, forged by time and mana, represented by the following effects:

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
• You have disadvantage on saves against Shatter effects, and take doubled damage as if made fully from inorganic matter.

Placid Prism

When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Precious Geode

Your crystalline features provide a defensive layer, which can be enhanced with armor:

• You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
• You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor other than a shield, you must wear a soft layer of clothing or padding between the armor and your crystalline body parts.

Crystalline Growth

You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice.

Crystal Resonance

You can speak, read, and write Sign Language and one other language of your choice. You gain the Telepathic feat at level 1.